Burial vault



Nov. 6, 1928.

M. E. STOW BURIAL VAULT File July 30, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 3 INVENTOR RNEY Nov. 6; 1928. 1,690,560

M. E. STOW 1mm, mum

Filed July so, 192:5 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 E INVENTOR Patented Nov. 6, 1928.

UNITED STATES MoRRAY E. snow, or PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

BURIAL VAULT.

Application filed July 30, 1923. Serial No. 654,582.

My invention relates to a burial vault or the like, and the novelty consists in the adaptation and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter pointed out.

There have been many attempts to construct burial vaults so that they would seal perfectly when the cover is lowered onto the body of the vault, and some of these are erroneously called self-sealing vaults as none of them are so constructed that they can seal perfectly or properly. The plastic or sealing material filled into the upper edge of all of these vaults squeezes out when the cover is lowered onto the body of the vault so that it is impossible to tell whether there is too much or too little plastic matter when sealing any 01 these vaults, as the final position that the cover squeezing down onto the body will take is not controlled and the amount of plastic material required cannot be determined.

My device has solved this problem, as the cover in my device rests directly on the body and thespace for sealing or plastic material 2 can be accurately measured so that the exact amount of such material required can be definitely determined. As the cover in my device is supported directly on the body there can be no variation in the relation of the cover and body parts when the cover is lowered into the sealing position, so that the sealing material being confined to the exact amount of space which it requires will always fill the sealing space completely and exactly.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a side view of my vault Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the vault shown in Figure 1; Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Figure 1 is an enlarged detail drawing of the sealing portion and adjoining parts of Fig. 3.

In the drawing 10 is a vault or body member of my vault, and 11 is a cover of the same. The body 10 is constructed in the usual well known mold, said mold having a contour around the inside of the base adapted to form edge 12. The edge 12 of the body 10 has a flat portion 13, a semi-oircular rim 14, and an upper flat portion 15 having a rectangular cut-out 16 around the same.

The cover 11 has a flat rim 17 adapted to rest on the rim 13 of the body 10, a semicircular cut-out 18, and a flat portion 19 having a rectangular cut-out portion 20.

A retaining cover flange 34, having inturned imbedded or looking members 35, is

imbedded in the sides of the cover 11 and handle members 36 are also imbedded in said cover 11 during the molding of the said cover.

As the vault is being sealed plastic cement 'for sealing will be placed around edge 12 of between the cover 11 and the body 10 as represented by the semi-circular cut-outs 14 and 18, and the rectangular cut-outs 16 and 3t and the spaces between all of these so that all of the excess plastic sealing cement will be squeezed out and the cover flange 34 will come down over the outer edge of the upper flat portion 15 of the body 10, thereby effecting a complete positive and perfect seal between the cover 11 and the body 10.

I claimi 1. In a burial vault a cover member sup ported directly on the body member, and separate means for sealing said members together, comprising a vertical groove between said cover and body with semi-circular cut-outs at the base of said groove in the bodyflange and at the head ofsaid groove in the cover flange, a horizontal groove connected to the head of said vertical groove and having rectangular cut-out portions'in the cover and body rims contiguous to each other, a cover flange rigidly secured to said coverover said horizontal groove and plastic material sufficient to exactly fill said vertical and horizontal grooves.

2. In a burial vault a cover having a rim supported directly on the rim of a body adapted for that purpose, and separate means for sealing said cover and body together, comprising an interlocking sealing space offixed dimensions, having a vertical and a horizontal space joined together, a semi-circular cut out at the base and also at the head of said vertical space, rectangular cut outs opposite each other in said horizontal space, plastic material of exact amount to fill said sealing space and a cover flange rigidly secured to said cover so as to retain said plastic material at the outer edge of said horizontal space.

' 3. In a burial vault a cover member supand horizontal space adjoining'betweensziid cover and body, semi-circular cut outs-.in said v cover and body, and rectangular cut outs in said covenand body in said sealing space,

plastic lnatcrizil in said sealing spaceof exact amount to fill the same and a cover flange 10 igidly, secured to said cover so as to retain said'plas'tlc material 'in said seallng space.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MURRAY E. STOW. 

